{"id":299556,"date":"2017-03-18T01:37:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dem-congressman-trump-could-lead-u-s-to-nuclear-war-with-russia\/"},"modified":"2017-03-18T01:37:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T00:37:08","slug":"dem-congressman-trump-could-lead-u-s-to-nuclear-war-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dem-congressman-trump-could-lead-u-s-to-nuclear-war-with-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Congressman: Trump Could Lead U.S. to \u2018Nuclear War\u2019 With Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/dem-congressman-trump-could-lead-u-s-nuclear-war-russia\/\"><strong>Washington Free Beacon<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 17, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton on Friday defended remarks he made earlier this week that President Donald Trump could lead the United States into a nuclear war with Russia through misguided leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tLHKk4ZIXQA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Massachusetts Democrat\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/2017\/03\/14\/at-south-by-southwest-seth-moulton-warns-of-nuclear-war-with-russia-makes-fun-of-paul-ryans-workout-routine\" target=\"_blank\">first made the claim<\/a>\u00a0Monday in a podcast interview\u00a0at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe might not even get to the long term because we could literally have a nuclear war with Vladimir Putin,\u201d Moulton said. Part of the reason for that war, he predicted, is Trump\u2019s \u201csole decision-making authority over nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moulton did not back down from his comments when pressed by CNN\u2019s Poppy Harlow on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s right,\u201d he responded when the quote was read back to him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/dem-congressman-trump-could-lead-u-s-nuclear-war-russia\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, March 17, 2017  at  11:23 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/dem-congressman-trump-could-lead-u-s-to-nuclear-war-with-russia.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"http:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p>        <!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n --><\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/dem-congressman-trump-could-lead-u-s-to-nuclear-war-with-russia.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Free BeaconMarch 17, 2017 Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton on Friday defended remarks he made earlier this week that President Donald Trump could lead the United States into a nuclear war with Russia through misguided leadership. The Massachusetts Democrat\u00a0first made the claim\u00a0Monday in a podcast interview\u00a0at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-299556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}